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2 unusual facts about Underbelly


Madeleine West

It was announced in late 2013 that she would be reprising her role of Danielle McGuire in the sequel/spin-off series Fat Tony & Co. which will not be placed under the Underbelly franchise (due to financing reasons) and will focus on the rise and fall of Tony Mokbel, who also featured in the original series, played by Robert Mammone.

Totally Tom

2011 saw the duo perform at Underbelly Limited at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which they were nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award.


Asher Keddie

She portrayed police officer Liz Cruickshank in the television drama Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and journalist Jacinta Burns, in the TV series Rush, as well as Dr Carol Frost in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Christopher Dale Flannery

In the 2009 mini-series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Dustin Clare portrays Flannery as a reckless bully with links to the planning of the Great Bookie Robbery and to drug trafficker Robert Trimbole.

Damian Walshe-Howling

Damian Walshe-Howling (born 22 January 1971) is an Australian actor, well known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama, Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.

Damien Garvey

In 2010, was in Channel Nine's Underbelly: The Golden Mile, in which won him an AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama in 2010.

Edwin Brienen

The film probes the underbelly of relationships and is suffused with an atmosphere reminiscent of French cinema of the '70s but also contains bone-chilling moments that recall Carrie and Repulsion.

Fan-Tan

Jacob Riis, in his famous book about the underbelly of New York, How the Other Half Lives (1890), wrote of entering a Chinatown fan-tan parlor: "At the first foot-fall of leather soles on the steps the hum of talk ceases, and the group of celestials, crouching over their game of fan tan, stop playing and watch the comer with ugly looks. Fan tan is their ruling passion."

Gin Wigmore

Wigmore has two older siblings: brother Olly and sister Lucy Wigmore, a professional actress known for starring as Justine Jones in the long-running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and a role in Underbelly: Razor.

IMAM Ro.58

More heavily armed than its predecessor, with five forward-firing MG 151s; three in the nose and two under the belly (the underbelly guns were not present during the first flight tests) and one 12.7 mm rear-facing Breda-SAFAT machine gun.

Kestie Morassi

In recent work, Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama Satisfaction and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson in the Nine Network TV drama series Underbelly.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

The film explores the dark underbelly of the family (with metaphorical help from Anton Chekhov, Aeschylus, and Tennessee Williams) as Oona attempts to attach herself to them and their theatrical endeavors as she seeks to leave Hollywood and embark on a stage career.

Lindsay Simpson

The best-selling book was made into a television mini-series, Bikie Wars Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms produced by Screentime, makers of the Underbelly series, and screened on Channel 10 in May 2012.

Peter Cambor

From 2006-2008, Cambor played the role of the expectant father, starring opposite Jennifer Westfeldt, in Notes from the Underbelly (on the ABC Television network).

Pleasant Gehman

Filming for Underbelly began in November 2006 at Tribal Dreams in Lincoln, Nebraska, and continued throughout all of 2007—in Sebastopol for Tribal Fest 7, to the Mexican Riviera for the Sun Bellies belly dance cruise, in New York for Margaret Cho's off Broadway hit The Sensuous Woman, to Hollywood, California - where Pleasant was given a commendation from the City of Los Angeles for her years of artistic contribution.

Samchillian

Adrian Romero has recorded a number of pieces on the samchillian, for his solo vocal records, under his instrumental electronic cut-up moniker Radiomen Roar, (notably the track Son Of Samchillian,) and with the band Ünderbelly formed with ex-Blue Öyster Cult drummer Albert Bouchard.

Wyndham College

Kain O'Keeffe – Actor, Home & Away, Blue Water High, Packed to the Rafters, Underbelly, McLeod's Daughters

Zarah Garde-Wilson

In the drama series Underbelly Garde-Wilson is played by actress Kestie Morassi


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